Medical Review Board
Every clinical page on AnxietyResearch.org is reviewed by a board-certified psychiatrist for clinical accuracy before publication. This page lists the medical reviewers, their credentials, and what review does and does not mean.
What medical review means here
Medical review on this site means a board-certified psychiatrist reads each clinical page before publication and verifies factual claims against the cited sources, including alignment with current clinical practice guidelines, FDA labeling, and high-quality systematic reviews. The reviewer's role is editorial review of accuracy. It is not authorship of every article, and it is not the practice of medicine.
Editorial review does not establish a clinician-patient relationship between any reviewer and any reader. See the Medical Disclaimer.
Current medical reviewers
Shariq Refai, MD, MBA, FAPA, Medical Editor
- Board-certified psychiatrist (ABPN)
- Dual certification in psychiatry and sports/performance psychiatry
- MBA, Duke University Fuqua School of Business
- Additional certificates in ECT and obesity medicine from Columbia University
- Founder of shrinkMD, an independent multistate telepsychiatry practice
- Full bio: /authors/shariq-refai
Scope of review
Pages reviewed by the medical editor include:
- Evidence summaries on treatments and conditions
- Treatment research pages
- Research literacy explainers with clinical content
- State data pages and statistics
- Reports and special populations content
- Glossary entries tagged "Clinical outcomes," "Treatment research," or "Conditions"
Pages without clinical content (terms, privacy, cookies, contact, copyright) do not require medical review.
Conflict-of-interest disclosure
The medical editor is the founder of shrinkMD, an independent multistate telepsychiatry practice. This relationship is disclosed sitewide on every page that mentions shrinkMD. AnxietyResearch.org does not refer patients to shrinkMD or any other practice, does not earn revenue from any link, and is editorially independent of any clinical practice. The full disclosure is on the Disclosures page.
Adding reviewers
As the review board grows, additional clinicians will be listed here with their credentials, scope of review (which topic areas they cover), and conflict-of-interest disclosures. Inquiries from board-certified psychiatrists, psychologists, and primary care clinicians interested in editorial review can be sent to [email protected].